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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: Fix checking return value
 of debugfs_create_dir
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:28:28 +0900
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:23:13AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> We have CONFIG_DEBUG_FS guard around the place calling debugfs_create_dir,
> thus debugfs_create_dir returns NULL on failure.

On the other hand the existing code doesn't actually have any problem,
the IS_ERR() won't give false positives, so the changelog isn't really
accurate and if anything we'll introduce a bug if someone cut'n'pastes
the code elsewhere.